# Wanna Track Early Voting? Check Here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 23, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656 "2012-10-23T20:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/1 "2012-10-23T20:22:26Z")
[Here is the link](http://nvsos.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2491) to early voting results in Nevada. Check back often as it will be updated daily. Note that Clark County is the metropolitan Las Vegas area, and Washoe County is the Reno area. All the rest are mostly smaller, rural areas. If you have any good sites for your (swing?) states regarding early voting results/statistics, please feel free to add them to this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/2 "2012-10-23T23:16:49Z")
I’ll play. > **[Early Voting - October 22, 2012](https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/2012/oct22.shtml)** > > Early Voting totals for November 6, 2012 General Election - Early Voting Totals through end of business October 22, 2012 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/3 "2012-10-24T01:31:58Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > [Here is the link](http://nvsos.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2491) to early voting results in Nevada. Check back often as it will be updated daily. > > Note that Clark County is the metropolitan Las Vegas area, and Washoe County is the Reno area. All the rest are mostly smaller, rural areas. > If you have any good sites for your (swing?) states regarding early voting results/statistics, please feel free to add them to this thread! **DMark** , that doesn’t look to me to show _how_ people are voting; it seems to show what party affiliation the early voter’s have. Am I mis-reading it? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/4 "2012-10-24T02:22:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **DMark** , that doesn’t look to me to show _how_ people are voting; it seems to show what party affiliation the early voter’s have. Am I mis-reading it? No, you are reading correctly. Granted, there is wiggle room when reading it, but for the most part, one might assume Democrats are voting for Obama, and Republicans for Romney, and who knows who the Independents are voting for. I think the most you can glean is the percentage of early voters from either party who are going to the polls, and considering over 60% of Nevadans voted early during the last General Election, it did seem to indicate Obama was winning Nevada back then, and he did. Also, there does seem to be some concencus that getting out the early voters is vital to carrying many swing states. Allows for campain workers to zero in on the remainder of those who have not voted - and that is supposedly where the real difference is made. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/5 "2012-10-27T15:18:47Z")
Hmm…they seemed to have changed the link on me. [Here is the newest link to early Nevada voting](http://nvsos.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2496). At this moment, at the end of week one, a whopping 25% of ALL registered voters in Nevada have already voted! 46% Democrats, 37% Republicans and 17% other. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/6 "2012-10-27T16:05:00Z")
OK then why hasn’t CNN called Nevada yet? I mean, they often announce winners on election night with only 1% of precincts reporting. Yet here we have 25% of residents voting. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/7 "2012-10-27T16:05:43Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > OK then why hasn’t CNN called Nevada yet? I mean, they often announce winners on election night with only 1% of precincts reporting. Yet here we have 25% of residents voting. They haven’t started counting votes- those are just the registrations of the voters who have voted. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/8 "2012-10-27T16:58:57Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > OK then why hasn’t CNN called Nevada yet? I mean, they often announce winners on election night with only 1% of precincts reporting. Yet here we have 25% of residents voting. I don’t think the start calling any states anymore until polling booths are closed in all states. No? Or is it that they wait until the poling booths are closed in that particular state. Either way, they won’t be calling states anymore while voting is still going on in that state. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/9 "2012-10-27T17:09:53Z")
Nearly 11 Million have voted. Here’s a link to a central location with links to states where possible: [http://elections.gmu.edu/early\_vote\_2012.html](http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2012.html) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/10 "2012-10-27T17:58:41Z")
Is it just me, or does Clark have an rather low number of registered voters (or “active”)? Thanks for the link. I skipped voting until the convenient polling place opens, which I think is today. I was going to hold off until Monday, but then I just realized I won’t have to pay for parking today. So maybe I’ll swing by in a bit. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/11 "2012-10-28T18:03:34Z")
OK, so I have to stop linking to a .pdf that changes daily. [Let’s try this link.](http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=1195) From there you can click on multiple stats and info - or just get the cumulative results. At the end of week one: 28% of ALL registered voters in Nevada have already voted. Of those who voted, they are registered as 45% Dem, 37% Rep and 17% Other. As mentioned, who knows if all the Dems voted for Obama, or all the Reps voted Romney, or who the Other voted for…but the trend does seem to bode well for Dems. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/12 "2012-10-28T18:30:52Z")
[PPP states](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/nevada/) > [@](#): > > Obama is already well on his way to winning Nevada based on early votes that have been cast in the week. Among those who say they’ve already voted he has a 61/39 advantage. Romney is up 51/46 with those planning to vote between now and election day. FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/13 "2012-10-28T19:02:55Z")
Well the national trend is that early voting helps the Democrats, so it’s not too surprising. Even in more conservative states. It’s less skewed in the general. The Democrats recognize this which is why I got an Obama mailer telling me to vote early (just did). ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/14 "2012-10-29T20:16:59Z")
[Today’s BusinessWeek update.](http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-29/democrats-hold-early-voting-advantage-over-republicans) > [@](#): > > In Iowa, more than 470,000 people had cast ballots through Oct. 27, according to the Iowa secretary of state’s office. If as many people vote this year as did in 2008, that would represent 30 percent of the total vote. Registered Democrats have cast 44.6 percent of the ballots so far, compared with 32 percent by Republicans and 23.3 percent by independents. … > > … Thus far in Nevada, where an even larger proportion of the vote has been cast than in Iowa when compared with the 2008 vote, Democrats have accounted for 45.4 percent, according to the Nevada secretary of state’s office. Republicans have accounted for 37.2 percent and independent voters for 17.4 percent. … > > … Republicans have a slim edge in Colorado’s early voting, according to data released today by the secretary of state’s office there. Of the vote turned in so far, 38 percent is from registered Republicans, while Democrats represent 36 percent and independents 24.5 percent. … About a third of the total 2008 vote has now been cast. … > > … Democrats have their biggest advantage in North Carolina, where the party held its national convention and people can register and vote in one stop at various locations. The party has recorded 49.5 percent of the early vote, compared with 31.1 percent for Republicans and 19.4 percent for independents, according to the elections project’s data. … > > … In 2008, about 30 percent of Americans voted before Election Day. That number is projected to grow to at least 35 percent this year, McDonald said … > > … Among only absentee ballots in Florida through Oct. 27, Republicans cast 44 percent, while Democrats accounted for 39 percent, according to numbers from the Florida Democratic Party and Romney’s campaign. That five-percentage-point advantage is down from a 15-point Republican edge at this point four years ago. … > > … Early, in-person voting started Oct. 2 in Ohio, and already more than a million people have voted in a state where 5.7 million did so in 2008. A Time magazine poll of likely Ohio voters last week showed Obama with a 2-to-1 lead, 60 percent to 30 percent, among those who have already voted. … Again FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/15 "2012-11-02T15:43:58Z")
**Today is the last day of early voting in Nevada**. After today, everyone else will have to wait until election day to vote. For those who are still undecided, may I suggest you wait until Wednesday, November 7th to vote - it will be easier for you to decide. As of yesterday, 46% of ALL registered voters in Nevada have voted. Of those: 44% are registered Democrats 38% are registered Republicans 18% are “Other” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/16 "2012-11-02T19:52:36Z")
Actually, INCLUDING yesterday’s November 1st vote (with today being the last day for early voting), the current totals are: 50% of ALL registered voters in Nevada have voted. (628,034 votes cast to date - out of a total of 1,257,621 active registered voters.) Of those who have voted: 44% are registered Democrats 37% are registered Republicans 19% are “Other” ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/17 "2012-11-03T02:34:35Z")
[A pretty nice source.](http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2012.html) Appropriate cautions regarding the incompleteness of data available made by the site it is still the best source there is, such as it is. Where voter registration numbers are given they seem as good as could be expected from an Obama POV (given that the primary likely drove up GOP registrations and the fact that this year the GOP has caught onto promoting early voting): the percent of those voting who are democratic seems to be most on pace with 2008. Marginally more registered as GOP early voting offsetting the marginally fewer who are this time registered as Independents. One exception: Colorado. Last time early voting [went](http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/swing-state-early-voting-tally-20121030) to Obama by 1.8 points (and the state overall by 9); this year by registration numbers it is Dem 34.8%, Rep 37.4%, None/Oth 27.8%. Of course the big question is who are the independent voters in Colorado and how are they likely voting/to vote. [According to PPP](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/10/obama-up-4-in-colorado.html) Obama leads among independents there 51/43. If that is an accurate split (a big if) and if all GOP and Dem vote according to their registrations (or at least in the same splits) then they are going into election day tied, with 60% of 2008’s total vote already counted. It may be a squeaker either way. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/18 "2012-11-03T20:55:28Z")
Early voting ended yesterday. All the rest of Nevada that wishes to vote this election will have to wait unitl Election Day to do so. FINAL EARLY VOTING NEVADA TOTALS: 56% of ALL registered voters have already voted. (701,845 out of 1,257,621) 44% registered Democrats (307,877) 37% registered Republicans. (259,913) 19% registered as “Other” (134,055) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/19 "2012-11-03T21:14:19Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > OK then why hasn’t CNN called Nevada yet? I mean, they often announce winners on election night with only 1% of precincts reporting. Yet here we have 25% of residents voting. Because you don’t know who they voted for. The independents vastly outnumbers the gap between the dems and GOP-registered folks, and affiliation doesn’t prove who someone voted for. On election night, when precints report in, you actually know the votes. Once the precints reporting represent an appropriate geographic appriximation of the state (e.g. you don’t just have rural votes counted, which would skew hugely Republican) you can guess pretty quickly how it went. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656/20 "2012-11-05T09:51:53Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > [A pretty nice source.](http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2012.html) Appropriate cautions regarding the incompleteness of data available made by the site it is still the best source there is, such as it is. Can I ask a question or two about the stats presented on this site? Whilst there seems to be only a small percentage of votes already cast in each case, do the figures shown for North Carolina and Pennsylvania ring accurate to everyone? Standard wisdom would have it that democrats vote early, so the NC Dem lead could be a reflection of that (with GOP voting surpassing this greatly on the main day) but how does that explain the PA voting pattern to date? Thanks for any insight. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-track-early-voting-check-here/638656.md?page=2)